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Claims (31)
Green Hackworth member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“Pell had clashed with State Department's bureaucracy as well during the time that he was an ambassador to those very same areas. Pell and Green Hackworth failed to get along almost immediately. And again, for anybody joining us, Green Hackw…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 7:12
Green Hackworth covered_up
Herbert Pell documented
“White House passed Pell's letter back to state to draft a reply where it ended up on Hackworth's desk. All of the surviving FDR and State Department letters to Pell during 1944 were actually drafted by Hackworth. Regardless of whether the n…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 35:09
Green Hackworth member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“Washington and London, who favored making a separate peace with the Nazis at the expense of the Soviet Union. They contended that Hitler's crimes inside Axis territory was legal, technically speaking, and that Hitler himself was immune from…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 34:35
Green Hackworth member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“favorably on the banker. An argument can be made that the State Department had an obligation to provide any evidence that they had, but they went way beyond that. They went looking for people to try to find a defense for this guy. State's l…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 32:16
Green Hackworth member_of
The Hague documented
“He was considered a preeminent specialist in international law, the drafter of numerous treaties and international agreements. Hackworth had served simultaneously at the State Department post and also as a U.S. judge of a permanent court of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 9:31
Green Hackworth member_of
Digest of International Law documented
“He was considered a preeminent specialist in international law, the drafter of numerous treaties and international agreements. Hackworth had served simultaneously at the State Department post and also as a U.S. judge of a permanent court of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 9:31
Green Hackworth covered_up
Herbert Pell documented
“And at no time did Hackworth tell Pell what he was doing. Hackworth used the meetings to squash Pell's request to attend war crimes policy gatherings then underway at the War Department and to pour cold water on Pell's assertions that FDR w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 36:17
Green Hackworth covered_up
Herbert Pell documented
“worked through the Christmas holiday to prepare the paperwork for FDR that they hoped would administer Pell's coup. They rehashed Pruess' allegations against Pell from the previous spring. And remember, Pruess was sent over there as a spy b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 37:12
Green Hackworth covered_up
War Department documented
“Hackworth accepted the War Department's proposal, but in working sessions, he helped draft policy directives for U.S. commanders in the field that were as close as possible to Hackworth's strategy on war crimes. At the same time, Hackworth …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 38:06
U.S. State Department spied_on
Green Hackworth documented
“is the uncle of John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles' had previously raised. The British Foreign Office remained of one mind with Hackworth on all of these issues, and its legal attaché in Washington leaked to him the classified, combined Chi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 39:04
Green Hackworth member_of
United States documented
“After his arrival, U.S. political advisor Murphy sought Washington's approval for Horthy's release. Legal advisors Green-Hackworth agreed, provided the Soviet Union did not formally object. The Soviets said nothing. Murphy wished to offer H…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 44:00
Green Hackworth member_of
United States documented
“Hackworth sought out new defense witnesses, screened them, arranged transportation and scheduling for them, and became a behind-the-scenes advocate for SLAPP. The state dispatched messages seeking support for him to the U.S. consul in Zuric…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 32:49
Green Hackworth headed
International Court of Justice documented
“Herbert Pell's arch rival, Green Hackworth, ended up as president of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. So, for those of you who haven't been with us the entire time, Green Hackworth was the single belly button at the State De…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 42:36
Green Hackworth covered_up
United Nations War Crimes Commission documented
“Is there a reason for this delay? Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Pell, the British had decided to go ahead and have a meeting without him and without the Soviets. The Foreign Office cabled Washington twice in September, asking that the meetings …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 17:23
Green Hackworth recruited
Lawrence Preuss documented
“with a guy by the name of Lawrence Pruess, P-R-E-U-S-S, who was a young university lecturer whose qualifications for the New Post included a confidential agreement with Hackworth to channel all derogatory information about Pell back to Hack…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 13:56
Green Hackworth recruited
John Winn documented
“Hackworth played for time. He quietly arranged for the U.S. ambassador in London, John Wynette, W-I-N-A-N-T, to attend the first War Crimes Commission instead of Pell, who they're still leaving in the United States. There were only two cond…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 19:50
Green Hackworth covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“Any suggestions of some sort of international court for the trials of war crimes should be frowned upon. The new charter stressed that it was neither necessary nor desirable to create a new body of law for war crimes. Back in Washington, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 20:32
Green Hackworth removed_from_power
Herbert Pell documented
“Roosevelt did not place a high priority on the discussions over war crimes once the toughly worded condemnations of the Nazi atrocities had been noted. So he was all about words and nothing about deeds. Hackworth explicitly ordered Pell to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 35:36
Green Hackworth removed_from_power
Herbert Pell book_quoted
“for the Axis notables who had collaborated with the Nazi crimes. State Department legal chief Green Hackworth succeeded in engineering Pell's dismissal in early 1945. And we'll talk about this in a lot more depth later on in another chapter…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 41:14
Green Hackworth removed_from_power
United Nations War Crimes Commission book_quoted
“for the Axis notables who had collaborated with the Nazi crimes. State Department legal chief Green Hackworth succeeded in engineering Pell's dismissal in early 1945. And we'll talk about this in a lot more depth later on in another chapter…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 41:14
Green Hackworth covered_up
Herbert Pell documented
“as such, was nearly meaningless to Herbert Pell because he could afford to work without pay. But Hackworth knew that without a congressional appreciation for the post, Pell would be legally forced off the commission. The legal advisor sent …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 35:14
Green Hackworth recruited
Catherine Fite documented
“as such, was nearly meaningless to Herbert Pell because he could afford to work without pay. But Hackworth knew that without a congressional appreciation for the post, Pell would be legally forced off the commission. The legal advisor sent …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 35:14
Green Hackworth member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“Clement Dunn, wartime ambassador and political advisor Robert Murphy, under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, again, a name that comes up often, legal affairs chief Green Hackworth. Now, by the end of this book, you guys are going to have hea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 3:04
Green Hackworth member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“Their most potent argument at the time was that only effective way to end suffering in Europe was to defeat Hitler quickly. Policies that they opposed were said to divert resources from the war effort. Hence, they were counterproductive in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 9:55
George F. Kennan appointed
Green Hackworth book_quoted
“According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 17:54
Green Hackworth ordered_assassination_of
United Nations War Crimes Commission documented
“who was at the time representing the department in interagency meetings with the War Department and the White House, and convinced Matthews to move against the War Crimes Commission as soon as possible. Hackworth wishes to have the commissi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 34:21
James Riddleberger supported
Green Hackworth documented
“worked informally within the State Department, for it received prompt support from the department's leading European and legal affairs specialist, not the least of which was Hackworth. In view of the troublesome Yugoslav activity, is inclin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 34:50
Green Hackworth appointed
Catherine Fite documented
“accountable for having done so. Hackworth delegated his assistance for war crimes issue Catherine Fite, F-I-T-E, and Albert Garrickson, G-A-R-R-E-T-S-O-N, both of whom had been active in the firing of Robert Pell to head the new group to ge…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 35:47
Green Hackworth appointed
Albert Garrickson documented
“accountable for having done so. Hackworth delegated his assistance for war crimes issue Catherine Fite, F-I-T-E, and Albert Garrickson, G-A-R-R-E-T-S-O-N, both of whom had been active in the firing of Robert Pell to head the new group to ge…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 35:47
Green Hackworth supported
U.S. Air Force host_asserted
“months to respond to any initiative involving Nazi war crimes when it suited him, immediately endorsed the Army Air Force policy within hours of it hitting print. Hackworth worked through the weekend to put together a memo that supported th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 37:36
Green Hackworth appointed
H. Freeman Matthews documented
“Wolfe, then still convalescing, replaced his former chief and carried his U.S. administrative burden out at the War Crimes Commission single-handedly after he had just collapsed. Hudson's resignation precipitated a renewed effort at State t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 33:54
Mentions (72)
▶ 45:12
A lot of stars on him. Well, and then look at all of this stuff. Yeah, never mind. Go ahead. That was just amazing. Just amazing. Last name I have on this list is a John Gilbert Winant, W-I-N-A-N-T, class of 1909. Now, two times he's been t…
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We certainly have moved past that. So they spend quite a bit of time here about talking about Pell and his relationship with FDR and how the State Department tried to keep him from even going over there. They kept delaying it and he had to …
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According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…
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in 1961, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agreed to enclose Berlin 110 miles within the Soviet occupation zone. Wynette submitted a recommendation embracing this agreement. Wynette felt that it would offend the Soviets if we…
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When submitting his recommendation to Washington, however, Winant attached a map on which a specific allied quarter of access into the city was drawn. Winant's proposal was never acted on in Washington. Therefore, the British submitted a re…
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Basically, the incredible zoning agreement that placed Berlin 110 miles within the Soviet zone and reserved no guaranteed access was formulated in the committee group. It's interesting to note that Philip Mosley, a CFR member, was Cordell H…
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Washington and London, who favored making a separate peace with the Nazis at the expense of the Soviet Union. They contended that Hitler's crimes inside Axis territory was legal, technically speaking, and that Hitler himself was immune from…
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Green Hackworth. By the time we're done with this book, you guys are going to hate Green Hackworth. He is an asshole. Because doing so would undermine political initiatives to settle the war through negotiations. In addition, most atrocitie…
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a united nations um not a united nations it's called um it was because we didn't have the united nations yet but it was it doesn't refer to the actual united nations that you and i think of but it was united nations war crimes committee or …
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Their most potent argument at the time was that only effective way to end suffering in Europe was to defeat Hitler quickly. Policies that they opposed were said to divert resources from the war effort. Hence, they were counterproductive in …
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Hall quickly announced that as far as the U.S. was concerned, the direct handling of war criminals did not fall within the terms of the recently signed Moscow Declaration, an ambiguous statement that raised obvious questions because it did.…
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FDR's letter favored military rather than civilian tribunals because such people know or should know what the rules of warfare are and should be able to detect violations of those rules. In fact, however, the State Department archive shows …
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White House passed Pell's letter back to state to draft a reply where it ended up on Hackworth's desk. All of the surviving FDR and State Department letters to Pell during 1944 were actually drafted by Hackworth. Regardless of whether the n…
▶ 35:36
Roosevelt did not place a high priority on the discussions over war crimes once the toughly worded condemnations of the Nazi atrocities had been noted. So he was all about words and nothing about deeds. Hackworth explicitly ordered Pell to …
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Regardless of what Hackworth or Roosevelt may have intended, however, Pell interpreted the FDR note as support for his own hardline positions. He succeeded in convincing most of the rest of the War Crimes Commission that Roosevelt was behin…
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Shouting and waving his arms, the giant Pell cornered him and insisted that Hall's narrow legalism would have to be swept aside. New law will have to be created if necessary, Pell insisted. The failure to prosecute would be a mockery of jus…
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Pell sent a decidedly negative evaluation of his assistant's work back to Washington, stating that he had defied orders and violated confidentiality rules, but Hackworth ignored them. He gave him a promotion and a raise. Foreign Minister An…
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requests for new instructions by which he meant a reversal of the state's veto of prosecution of Nazis for crimes against the prison population of Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Green Hackworth ignored him as well. But the situation was bec…
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This infuriated Hackworth. Lobbying in the press for policy changes was strictly forbidden for U.S. representatives abroad. Worse than that, the prevailing political climate suggested that Pell might succeed in his effort. Hackworth began a…
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was eager to clear the air with Roosevelt. In early December, he used the occasion of his son's marriage to return to the U.S. He hoped to win the president's backing in the debate over the atrocities. At the State Department, Green Hackwor…
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the appropriation for Pell, but in terms that were very clear to Congress that they did not care for Pell's work at state and it needed to be deprioritized. After several meetings, a congressional conference committee deleted Pell's salary …
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And at no time did Hackworth tell Pell what he was doing. Hackworth used the meetings to squash Pell's request to attend war crimes policy gatherings then underway at the War Department and to pour cold water on Pell's assertions that FDR w…
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I thought I made it clear that nothing final and definite could be said at this time. Hackworth rebuked Pell. The U.S. representative should not act on any of his impressions. Acting Secretary of State Stenenis also knew that Pell's ouster …
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worked through the Christmas holiday to prepare the paperwork for FDR that they hoped would administer Pell's coup. They rehashed Pruess' allegations against Pell from the previous spring. And remember, Pruess was sent over there as a spy b…
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The only real question left, they said, was whether Roosevelt should personally tell Pell that his job was over or if he preferred state do it. Roosevelt replied to Stenekis, you do it. Hackworth believed he was meanwhile making considerabl…
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Hackworth accepted the War Department's proposal, but in working sessions, he helped draft policy directives for U.S. commanders in the field that were as close as possible to Hackworth's strategy on war crimes. At the same time, Hackworth …
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is the uncle of John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles' had previously raised. The British Foreign Office remained of one mind with Hackworth on all of these issues, and its legal attaché in Washington leaked to him the classified, combined Chi…
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The importance of blocking delivery of suspects was to grow considerably in the months ahead, and eventually it emerged as one of the most important means by which war criminals escaped justice. In early January 1945, Hackworth's efforts to…
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to his earlier accusations that the State Department had sabotaged or obstructed the whole range of activities that were taking place overseas. Newspaper editorial writers and columnists took up Pell's cause and, more importantly, focused a…
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favorably on the banker. An argument can be made that the State Department had an obligation to provide any evidence that they had, but they went way beyond that. They went looking for people to try to find a defense for this guy. State's l…
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Hackworth sought out new defense witnesses, screened them, arranged transportation and scheduling for them, and became a behind-the-scenes advocate for SLAPP. The state dispatched messages seeking support for him to the U.S. consul in Zuric…
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After his arrival, U.S. political advisor Murphy sought Washington's approval for Horthy's release. Legal advisors Green-Hackworth agreed, provided the Soviet Union did not formally object. The Soviets said nothing. Murphy wished to offer H…
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with New Force how manifold and complex Nazi war crimes actually were. The War Crimes Commission work in this sensitive area in East-West relations gave the commission a perspective far broader than anything the State Department or Foreign …
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Wolfe, then still convalescing, replaced his former chief and carried his U.S. administrative burden out at the War Crimes Commission single-handedly after he had just collapsed. Hudson's resignation precipitated a renewed effort at State t…
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who was at the time representing the department in interagency meetings with the War Department and the White House, and convinced Matthews to move against the War Crimes Commission as soon as possible. Hackworth wishes to have the commissi…
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worked informally within the State Department, for it received prompt support from the department's leading European and legal affairs specialist, not the least of which was Hackworth. In view of the troublesome Yugoslav activity, is inclin…
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Unfortunately, it would be very undesirable if it were to become publicly known that this government took the initiative in bringing about the disillusionment of the War Crimes Commission. Therefore, he continued, Hackworth proposed to info…
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accountable for having done so. Hackworth delegated his assistance for war crimes issue Catherine Fite, F-I-T-E, and Albert Garrickson, G-A-R-R-E-T-S-O-N, both of whom had been active in the firing of Robert Pell to head the new group to ge…
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I this obviously piqued my interest and I was like, all right, I'm going to buy the book. And when I read it, I was like, holy crap, because it talks about I mean, and it's very well footnoted as far as references from, you know, sometimes …
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Herbert Pell's arch rival, Green Hackworth, ended up as president of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. So, for those of you who haven't been with us the entire time, Green Hackworth was the single belly button at the State De…
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Actual factual information was the Soviet Union and then it comes from a communist. So you see how that's kind of like a circle of logic there for them. The U.N. War Crimes Commission staggered on for about another 18 months after Hackworth…
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The Soviet government has now agreed to the immediate establishment of a war crimes commission and the appointment of a representative. The U.S. should set about by picking its own representatives to the organization. Legal advisor Green Ha…
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which would be a dead-end position and out of the limelight. It happened to be a place where they dumped administration loyalists to keep them out of their affairs. Meanwhile, the legal advisor at state, Green Hackworth, had been seeking an…
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Pell had clashed with State Department's bureaucracy as well during the time that he was an ambassador to those very same areas. Pell and Green Hackworth failed to get along almost immediately. And again, for anybody joining us, Green Hackw…
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As Pell saw things, he was working directly for the president, regardless of the administrative details of his appointment. As state's legal advisor, Hackworth may have had some sort of bureaucratic oversight of Pell's paperwork, but Pell d…
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That's a dressing down. Hackworth saw things very differently.…
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It was he who was responsible for the oversight of the U.S. government's interpretation of international law, including war crimes. Pell may have been FDR's friend, but he knew little about international law or U.S. relations. For his part,…
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The legal advisor had some political appointees like Pell before, and he didn't like them. Hackworth turned 60 the year that FDR appointed Pell. He was by then a puffy, fussy man, a confirmed bachelor with monkish devotion to the law. By al…
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He was considered a preeminent specialist in international law, the drafter of numerous treaties and international agreements. Hackworth had served simultaneously at the State Department post and also as a U.S. judge of a permanent court of…
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and papers in an eight-volume Digest of International Law in 1940. Hackworth sought to articulate his precept of international law. In 1943, just as controversy over the legal response to Nazi war crimes was coming into focus, State Departm…
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And of course, it says exactly what they want it to say. He basically embraced the legal status quo. And he basically believed that whatever happened in a country, no matter how atrocious it was, could not be treated as a war crime. That wh…
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then there was nothing the international community could do about it. The impact of war on commercial relationships was one of his focuses. This included subjects like licensing companies under the Trading with the Enemies Act. And that, of…
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It is clear in hindsight that the Nazis' exterminations and murders was a key element of Hackworth's work on war crimes and basically had made it obsolete by the time it was published because it didn't address this. Herbert Pell had a diffe…
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London Assembly Project, be appointed as his chief assistant and legal advisor for the UN War Crimes Commission. Gulick was probably the most authoritative legal voice in the U.S., then arguing for tough measures against the Nazis. Hackwort…
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with a guy by the name of Lawrence Pruess, P-R-E-U-S-S, who was a young university lecturer whose qualifications for the New Post included a confidential agreement with Hackworth to channel all derogatory information about Pell back to Hack…
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the massacres that had been announced in Poland. And both sides were still attempting to bring the allies back together. This delay stretched on for months, and Hackworth used the time to undermine and discredit FDR's nominee of Pell. More …
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Is there a reason for this delay? Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Pell, the British had decided to go ahead and have a meeting without him and without the Soviets. The Foreign Office cabled Washington twice in September, asking that the meetings …
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that they were proceeding with the meetings. A new problem had arisen as Hackworth saw things. Popular anger against Nazi atrocities was pushing the Allies into a more sweeping grant of authority to this War Crimes Commission. He did not wa…
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was the narrowly defined version. It would conduct a study, hold a few meetings, prepare a report, and go home, not hold anybody accountable. Even though the UN War Crimes Commission had not yet met, the scope of plans for its operation gra…
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to ward off criticisms of its failure to do anything, especially open up Palestine to Jewish immigration, or to take any other measures to slow down the atrocities. The public protests became desperate and more pressing in both Britain and …
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The plans now outlined by the British was quite different than what they had agreed upon. And sending Pell into this expanded variation of this commission was frightening to Hackworth. Its potential impact on foreign affairs had increased w…
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Hackworth played for time. He quietly arranged for the U.S. ambassador in London, John Wynette, W-I-N-A-N-T, to attend the first War Crimes Commission instead of Pell, who they're still leaving in the United States. There were only two cond…
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to an international grand jury for war crimes trials. That's Hackworth's worst nightmare. Pell soon learned of the meeting and descended on Washington in a fury. Hackworth was out of the office that day, but Pell cornered a junior assistant…
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want the War Guilt Commission to go as far as it can and to be as tough as possible, unquote. That's still in that same letter to the Secretary of State. Pell's dispute with Hackworth was more than just a clash of personalities. Pell called…
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Pell's analysis had a certain compelling logic to it, that Pell's disrespect could come from a man whom Hackworth regarded as an overbearing political appointee and a diplomat ignorant person proved to be reason enough for Hackworth to seek…
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Burrell and some members of the OSS became convinced the Allied psychological warfare stressing just ensure punishment for war crimes would slow the pace of their crimes in Germany, Hungary, Romania, and other Axis states. But Green Hackwor…
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The Army Air Force feared that if the U.S. tried German criminals during the war or even threatened to put them on trial, the Nazis would retaliate with war crimes of American flyers who had been shot down in bombing runs, which is exactly …
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months to respond to any initiative involving Nazi war crimes when it suited him, immediately endorsed the Army Air Force policy within hours of it hitting print. Hackworth worked through the weekend to put together a memo that supported th…
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The new measures that the Nazis had publicly initiated were regrettable, they said, but were not a matter in which the U.S. government wished to interfere. George Kennan. The leaders of this informal grouping at the State Department include…
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Clement Dunn, wartime ambassador and political advisor Robert Murphy, under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, again, a name that comes up often, legal affairs chief Green Hackworth. Now, by the end of this book, you guys are going to have hea…
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Any suggestions of some sort of international court for the trials of war crimes should be frowned upon. The new charter stressed that it was neither necessary nor desirable to create a new body of law for war crimes. Back in Washington, th…
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Just tell everybody what happened and don't do anything about it. Kind of like our congressional commissions and investigations here. Hackworth preferred that nothing be done to bring public attention to the question of whether or not most …